Kitaj. In the picture - ACE284.2

R B Kitaj working on portrait. His VO on portraiture – the artist’s "greatest challenge". Portrait of David Hockney , others . Kitaj in gallery watching paintings being hung. Moving in to painting Cecil Court, London WC2 (The Refugees) (1983-84) with himself in foreground. Kitaj drawing… quotes Degas quoting art critic saying that art was all about getting the proportions right. Kitaj saying he hates and would like to burn half the pictures in the world. Exhibition. Caption: "Tate Gallery, London. June 1994". Kitaj talking to gallery curators. Caption: "Cleveland 1932". Photographs of his family. Kitaj talking about his parents. The Cleveland Museum. Photographs of children at Museum. The Tate exhibition. Kitaj with Richard Morphet and Nicholas Serota. Caption: "The Movies". Still of Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson. Kitaj talks about his early film-going; believes he was named after Ronald Colman. Stills from The Adventures of Robin Hood, Lost Horizon, etc. Town of Troy, New York. Kitaj’s High School year book, the school. Newsfilm of baseball game. Kitaj’s Baseball (1983-1984). Velazquez’s Philip IV Hunting Wild Boar (La Tela Real, c.1632-1637). Baseball. Newsfilm.